Conflict Resolution: Four Takeaways in 20 Minutes

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Conflict Resolution:
Four Takeaways in 20 Minutes
August 27, 2014
Junior League of Dallas • JLD Headquarters

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One Tire Too Many?
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… and the assembly line doesn't work.
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• Goals
• Constraints
• Audiences
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What’s Different?

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What do we all need?
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John DeGroote is a former global company general
counsel now serving as a mediator, arbitrator and
court-appointed trustee in significant business disputes.
He believes that hands-on leadership, early matter
assessment, and aggressive project management drive
results.
• Serves as mediator and arbitrator in significant business disputes.
• Appointed to serve as the Liquidating Trustee to the BearingPoint, Inc. Liquidating Trust by the United
States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Served from 2000 through 2008 as the Chief Litigation Counsel to KPMG Consulting/BearingPoint; led
a team of over 40 in-house lawyers around the globe as the Company's Chief Legal Officer from 2008
through late 2009, when he became the Company's President.
• Serves as a privately-appointed corporate officer and director in select situations.
• Previously practiced with the law firms of McKool Smith, P.C. and Jackson Walker, L.L.P., with a focus
on complex technology, commercial, and intellectual property litigation matters against and for various
Fortune 500 companies.
• Received his mediation training from Pepperdine University's Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in
2005. Has participated in over 200 mediations in approximately 20 states as a client executive, as
outside or in-house counsel, and as a party.
• Serves as a co-founder to online decision tree tool ResolutonTree.com and comments on litigation
management, settlement techniques and negotiation strategies at settlementperspectives.com.
• J.D., Duke University
School of Law, 1990
• B.A., Mississippi State
University, 1986
John DeGroote
President, John DeGroote Services, LLC
Hickory Street Annex
501 S 2nd Avenue, Suite A-700
Dallas, Texas 75226
office 214 • 887• 3484
cell 214 • 288 • 6864
jd@johndegroote.com

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